The Work, the Tragedy and the Ingenuity of the Great War

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Title (Dublin Core)
The Work, the Tragedy and the Ingenuity of the Great War
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
The Work, the Tragedy and the Ingenuity of the Great War
caption 1: What the gun pointer sees
through the loop-hole of
a German gun shield

caption 2: The armored Italian cap-

tain of one of the numer-

ous wire-cutting * Death
Companies”

caption3: The Italians now possess heavy siege guns which compare
very favorably with the German and Austrian guns
which did such great execution at Liege and Namur at

caption 4: ‘Through the barrel of the gun may be seen Italian soldiers who are hauling this heavy cannon

caption 5: One of the tragedies of the
war. The sinking of the
hospital ship * Anglia
with wounded on board,
after striking a mine in
the English Channel. The
remarkable photograph
was taken from one of the
rescuing ships just as the
“Anglia” plunged beneath
the waves, carrying down
many of the wounded and
their nurses

caption 6: the opening of the war. The moving of these great guns |
to lofty positions in the Alps is no mean feat, as may be
seen in the picture, showing thirty men at work

caption 7: Anltaliansoldier
wearing a steel
helmet and suit
of armor. His
company is
made up of
picked men,
whose perilous
duty it is to cut
the enemies’
barbed wire
entanglements
before an in-
~~ fantry attack

caption 8: A system of mirrors makes it possible for the Austrian-soldier to fire
his rifle without exposing himself
Contributor (Dublin Core)
International Film Service (photo)
American Press Association (photo)
Illustrated War News (photo)
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
World War I
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1916-04
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
514-515
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core)
Google Books
References (Dublin Core)
Liège
Namur
HMHS Anglia
English Channel
Alps
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Filippo Valle
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)